abstractionism
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of abstractionism
1905–10, for an earlier sense; abstraction + -ism
Example Sentences
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Mr. Khrushchev, who had simple tastes and was facing serious political challenges, flew into a rage against abstractionism and made threats of coercion.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2017
Harris's book tells the story of English art's journey away from pure abstractionism to a tactile, particularising concern with the local and the contingent, with "stones and leaves".
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2010
A lively show by a Parisian who has, in a one-man war against abstractionism, engaged in fistfights and lawsuits with his critics and sent his large, figurative paintings floating down the Seine on a barge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Berlin's third great architecture exhibition, the Interbau of 1957, was the high-water mark of this slightly mad, modern abstractionism, and the first such exhibition that produced a thicket of real buildings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pragmatism saves us at any rate from such diseased abstractionism as those pages show.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
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